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, 1887-12-28

A gentleman stood in front of a fur
rier's store contemplating the seal gar
ments that filed the windows.
II never see a seal coat" he said,
"that / am not reminded of a heart
breaking day l passed among the seal
killers"
Then he told of joining an expedition,
when he was n young man, and going
out for the sport of seal killing. They
knocked the pretty creatures on the head.
The seals are so tame, aff~ectionate and
fearless, that when the hunters landed
and anne among them they crowded
round them like dogs, making their little,
friendly bark and fawning upon the muir
derous hands that proceeded to stretch
them bloody corpses upon the beach.
The man related how sick at heart he
got; how he tried to get away from this
massacre of the innocents, and to this day
a sealskin coat recalled his wretched ex-
p~erience as a numbering criminal among
the seals.-New York Cor. Chicago
Herald.
, 1887-12-28

Some of the animals of Japan are quite
different from the same species which
are seen in America. The cats, for in
stance, have the shortest kind of tails or
else NJ ne at all. Being deprived of this
usual playthinE, they are very solemn
pussics. An American once took one of
these tailless cats TO San Francisco as a
curiosity, aud it utterly refused compan-
iouship with the long tailed feline speci-
mems there; but, finding n cat whose tail
had been cut off by accident, the two be-
came frieI dly at once. Japanese dogs
are almost destitute of noses. having the
no7trils Pet directly in the head. The
smaller the nose, the more valuable the
Lseel.-BO5ton Budget.
, 1887-12-28
One Way to Woo slumbsr.

Who is there who has not at times car
ried the excitement of composition too
far into the quiet night, and then, when
prudence sent him to bed, found sleep a
shy visitantS The momentum of his
brain work cannot easily be checked;
the blood which has been called there
for thought making remains there, or,
more truly, continues to flow thither;
h vase motor nerves, whose duty it is
to regulate the blood current by expand
ing or contracting the blood vessels, are
too tired to work automatically, and they
must be helped. Exercise that will dis
tribute the blood through the body and
so relieve the brain, is now plainly indi-
Gated, and it will surprise the brain weary
and sleepless man the first time he tries
he following exercise to see how quickly
the coveted sleep comes to him.
This is not a DOCTORS prescription, but
only an example of a simple exercise APP
piled to a definite end. With the clothes
removed lie on the floor, back down,
placing the arms up with the hands
clasped behind the neck, and fastening
the feet down to the floor in any conve-
nient way, rise to a sitting posture and
back, repeating the motion a dozen times,
but not in a hurried manner. Ii this is
very easy, load your hands with a light
dumbbell or other weight.-William 7.
Brigham in The Writer.
, 1887-12-28

Zach Taylor rode Mt Washington the
horse he had used in the Mexican war.
Its name was ''Old Whitley, " and it fol-
lowed the funeral car of the dead presi-
lent to his grave. Franklin Pierce used
to gallop about the streets Of Washing
ton at midnight on a blind horse during
his presidency. He rode twice daily
and his coachman, who still lives here,
tells me That he kept eight horses in the
White House stables This coachman
says Buchanan had ore set Of harness
which COS $500. Its buckles were heav-
lily plated with silver, and it had iifty-six
solid silver ''Bs'' in different places
upon it. Buchanan, however, never rode
on horseback, but his niece, Harriet Lane.
was accustomed TO gullop with the other
society girls of that day over the hills
about Washington.-Chicago Times.
, 1887-12-28

A novel craft is being built in Mon
treal. 1t is a steam catamaran, each OF
the cigar shaped hulls being of steel, sixty
five feet long, and built in two compart-
ments, one being for water ballast and
the other for coal oil, which will be used
for fuel. Two vertical engines will fur
nish the power to two propellers, which
are so arranged that they will lift them
selves out of the way when the hulls
strike floating ice or other obstacles. The
boat can be taken apart and packed on a
ship, and is intended for whale and
walrus hunting in the Attic regions. 1t
will carry a gatling gun and a powerful
electric battery.-Cleveland Leader.
, 1887-12-28
HOW A DIME IS COINED.
An Interesting Process That the Public
Knows Little About.

an AASNNa @H@ $50 $1,000
Knows Little About.
There are many things to be seen at
the United States mint on Fifth street.
1t is not generally known that this is the
largest institution of the kind in the
world; yet it is a fact, and in its facilities
for the rapid and perfect coinage of
money the San Francisco mini is N
coded to be much superior to the Royal
mint of London. which is generally sup
posed to be- the largest and most COM
plete mint on earth.
a reporter called the other day, and
through the courtesy of Conner James NJ.
Gurham was permitted to witness the
manner in which dollars and dimes are
turned out by the bushel.
Just at present there is a lively demand
all over the country for silver dimes. and
hundreds of thousands Of dollars of them
are being shipped to New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati, st. Louis and other eastern
cities. Two of the money presses are,
and have beer for some time, running
exclusively on this coin. The demand is
so great that these machines are not even
stopped on Sundays, and will be run on
that day.
The process of dime making is an in
teresting one. The silver bullion is first
melted and run into two-pound bars.
These in turn are run through immense
rollers and flattened out to the thickness
of the coin. These silver strips are then
passed through n machine which cuts
them into the proper size for the presses,
the strips first having been treated with
a kind of tallow to prevent their being
scratched in their passage through the
cutters. The silver pieces are then put
into the feeders of the printing presses,
and are fed to the die by automatic ma
chinery at the rate of 100 per minute,
As, 900 dimes being turned out in a reg
ular working day of eight hours. rs the
smooth pieces are passed between the
%ponderous printing dies they receive the
lettercd and figured impression in a man
ner similar to that of a paper pressed
upon n form of type; at the same time
the piece is expanded in a slight degree,
and the small corrugations are put into
its rim. The machine drops the com
pleted coin into n receiver, and 1t Is
ready for the counters hands.
The instrument used by the counter is
not a complicated machine by any means,
as one might suppose. 1t is a simple
copper covered tray, having raised ridges
running across its surface ut a distance
apart the exact width of n dime. From
the receiver the o is dumped on to
this board or tray. and rs it is shaken
rapidly by the counter the pieces settle
down into the PAGES between the ridges.
All these spaces being filed, the surplus
coin is brushed back into the receiver,
and the counter has exactly 1850 silver
dimes, or $125, on this tray, which num-
Der is required to fill the spaces. The
, 1887-12-28

at is nonsense" said a chemist, ''to
say that coffee is injurious on account of
the caffeine in it. Caffeine is an alkaloid,
which, taken in larger doses, would pro-
duce nervous troubles and other serious
consequences, but is present in coffee in
such infinitesimal quantities that it is
perfectly harmless; on the contrary, it is
to caffeine that coffee owes its tonic prop
critics. If coffee is injurious it works very
slowly, for thousands Of people who use
it to excess live to a good old age. They
say Voltaire drank forty.eight glasses of
it a day. "-Philadelphia Times.
, 1887-12-28

From many observations on healthy
men, DIR. Theodoroff, of st. Petersburg,
learns that the vital capacity Of the lungs
increases from morning till evening, de-
cIeasIng again during the night After
each meal too, there is a special increase,
followed by a slight decrease; the vital
capacity being at its highest shortly after
dinner and at its lowest after getting up
in The morning. The force Of insIlat.on
and expiration follows nearly the same
law.-Arkansaw Traveller.
, 1887-12-28

The church of Hucknal Torkard, Motifs,
England, in which is the tomb of Byron,
is being rebuilt, but it is said that not a
stone of Byron's tomb will be disturbed,
and the block of marble sent for the pur-
pose by the king of Greece, and embel-
lished with a laurel wreath wrought in
brass by Mr.. Richard Belt, which marked
the poets grave, as well as the tablet to
his memory, and the mural monument
in memory of his daughter, Lady Love
lace, will, after the restoration, occupy
the same positions relatively to tile grave
as now.-New York Sun.
, 1887-12-28

A peculiar locomotive has just been
manufactured in Boston, and will be
tested on the Boston and Lowell railroad.
1t has but one driving wheel on each side,
and these, instead of being perfectly
round, have a periphery composed of a
series of plain facets connected with each
other by very obtuse angles. 1t is claimed
that the fiat surfaces will give greater adj
hcsion TO the track and make the engine
more powerful than any heretofore con-
struCted. New York Press.
, 1887-12-28

"a member of my family was taken
down with the Small pox. l Immediately
commenced to use Darbys Prophylactio
Fluid. 1t kept the atmosphere OF the
room pure and fresh. The patient was
relieved. and never for a moment deliri
Gus; was not pitted, and was about the
house again in three weeks, aud no others
had it James W. Parkinson, Ed The
Caterer Phila., Pa.
, 1887-12-28

A negro woman of Pulaski, Tenn, told
her friends that she would surely die at 7
O'Clock on n certain evening. So about
fifty Of them gathered around her bed
and shouted and prayed and sung in an
ecstasy Of religious fervor as the hour
.drcw reaI Tor the soul to take its flight.
BOT it didn't do it. On the contrary, the
I'M went into an apparent trance,
from which she mouses occasionally to
eat a square meal. New York Sun.
, 1887-12-28

The new pencil introduced by Faber
for writing upon glass, porcelain and
metals in red, white and blue are made
by melting together spermaceti, four
parts; tallow, three parts, and wax two
parts, and coloring the mixture with
white lead, red lead or Prussian blue as
desired. These pencils are convenient in
the laboratory, and save the trouble of
labelling. Boston Transcript.
, 1887-12-28

A London association is endeavoring to
establish a hospital for the treatment of
hair diseases, with a staff of trichologists
and periodical lectures and demonstra-
tons. Bald heads, such as the coming
man is supposed to possess, will be rene
died as much as possible. Chicago Times.
, 1887-12-28

In the combination, proportion, and pre-
paration OF its ingredients. Hoods Sarsa-
p%arilla accomplishes cures where other pre-
parations entirely fail. Peculiar 10 its
good name at home, which is a tower Of
strength abroad. peculiar in the ~phenome.
nal sales it has attained, Hoods Sarsapa-
lila is the most successful medicine for
purifying tho blood. giving strength, and
creating an appetite.
, 1887-12-28

Workmen who were digging a ditch
in Montgomery county, Indiana, struck
a stratum Of earth resembling white
clay, which turned black on Icing ex-
posed 10 the air. Pieces Of it thrown
into the fire were found TO burn ferccly.
The substance is supposed to be coal Of
the first formation Chicago Herald.
, 1887-12-28

EuropoaH flower collectors have visited
all the goGnl.iys in South America in
search OF rare orchids, and during six
months Of the present year Ss,650 was
paid for these curious plants in one town
in Venezuela. Chicago Times.
, 1887-12-28

The marble slabs which form the roof
of Girard college, in Philadelphia, have
turned into lime through the action of
the sulphurouI smoke of the anthracite
coal burned in the building.-New York
Evening World.
, 1887-12-28

The largest stock of fine brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice HqUeurs and superfine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1887-12-28

AGE1ov's Blood Blood E Rdmsd is the an, GnIy
iced. 1t Is a positive cure for Ulcers, Erup-
tions or SypLilitic Poisoning. 1t purifes the
whole system, and banishes all Rheumatic
and Neuralgia pains. We guarantee IL
DR. W. N. Hunt.
, 1887-12-28

Engraving in all its branches Is done at
ZEuNEP BUEoHNER Il Co.'s.
, 1887-12-28

Diamonds are found 1T present in five
counties Of California, as follows: ANA
dor, Butte, I'll Dorado, Nevada and Trim
inv
, 1887-12-28

N MONA would enjoy your dinner
y INV and are prevented by Dys-
pcpsia. use hcker's Dyspepsia Tablets.
They are a positive cure for Dyspepsia. In.
digestion. Flatulency and Constipation.
We guarantee them. IS and 90 cents
DIR. W. n. Hunt
, 1887-12-28
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Overcoats are the best bargains for the
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OF the same materials for $1,000, 1900 and up to
500.
We can fit any man in cotton or linen cord
Corduroy suits at lowest prices
Winter Shoes and warm Caps in great variety.
eS~ Prices, Samples of Cloths, Catalogues,
etc, sent on application.
, 1887-12-28

FERRIS MOVES H0USEs
2OG Fifteenth street
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
STATE CORREsPoNDENCE.

NORTH HAVEN, April 26.-In accordance
with the suggestions of the master of the
Connecticut State grange, very attractive
programme for the suitable observance of
Arbor day has been arranged by members of
the grange, who are to hold an open meeting
at Memorial Hall on Friday evening, April
goth, to which their friends are cordially in
vited. The entertainment will include
speeches, music, readings and Rotations.
All are welcome.
The real estate in this town belonging to
the estate of the late George w. Jones will
be sold at public auction on the 18th of
June.
Several loads of furniture belonging to Mr..
Fl. M. Blakeslee arrived in town last Friday
and it is expected that the family will arrive
soon and in few days be ready to receive
the congratulations Of their friends.
Mr.. S. F. Linsley left the house of Mr.
Blakeslee in season for him to occupy it at
the desired time and bought the place re-
Gently erected by himself for George w.
Tuttle, who was obliged to go to California
on account of mis- health. Mr.. Linsley's
family all seem we'll satisfied with their new
home.
A drove of nice looking cattle arrived by
cars yesterday morning, but probably not
for Mr. R. N. Augur, who has for SEINE days
been quite i'll.
The semi annual session of the Grand di-
vision S. of T. is to be held at Memorial
Hall on Thursday, April %, at 10 o'clock
a. m. A dinner is to be served by the mem
bers of Mineral Spring division at fifty cents
a meal
The place recently owned by Edwin
Brockett has been sold to family by the
name of Perkins from Wallingford.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
UNITED CHURCH.

A Highly Successful Pew Rental
Never Better-The New choir and
Now OrgaAist.
The pew rental at the United church Mon
day night realized $500, the largest amount
ever realized at pew rental in the history
of this old church organization, and all the
meeting began. The method of rental sim
pIifed matters greatly. A letter was sent to
each pewholder, with reply postal card, Civ
ing each an opportunity of retaining the old
seat at the old fgare. All the seats but four
were thus disposed of before the meeting.
Next Sunday the new choir commences its
years engagement. The members are Max
Kastner, Miss Fechter, Mrs. Blinn and DR..
Bush. With this combination admirable
singing is expected. The church has also
secured new organist, Mr.. Cornwall, a Yale
graduate now with tins New Haven Savings
bank. He was the accompanist of the Yale
Glee elRh fer four years.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
CLOSE OF THE BIG FAIR.

The Dominican Fathers To Clear
$1,000 BY Their Two Weeks Fair
One of The Most Successful Ever
HeId-Lucky Ones Vino Carried OFF
PRICES.
The Dominican fathers fair closed at Union
army last night. It has been one of the most
successful ever held in the city. Rev. Father
Higgins said he was hopeful that $1,000
would be Melted by it, and it undoubtedly
will. Sixteen hundred people paid their
way into the fair last evening. Following
were the principal prizes awarded last night:
Silver lemonade set, No 4, Mary Kearns, Clark
street; silver forks. No 2S Mary Condor, "
SfI6S is EM
aeary $ Grove Street, Se s1 N9 ses No
y Moyg II Elm street, I'll painting Nc 81 Ward
& ca. es%sys No e 5ose Me9sssRs
Wooster street; gold BRACELETS. Re-! s' NJ
e1 rs silver 20 aq keg E.
e pv "et No RGdas e
Mary's 20, T. A; B, No; 81; $50 in gold.
silver &c., 1sSis Fashion as 6qangs
street; ladys gold watch, Annie A. Rowe, 9e Broad
auh addeef
House; carpet by Bolton & Neey Mary Ann Mon
INK
follows:
Emerald Guard s7s, Grays 267, Blues SO. City
Guards so, Light Guards %, Foot Guard g.
For hammer.William Hughey s.735. Thomas Pat
ten 2, 75s, Tim Almond s59. John Gallixer 831.
For dolls cradle-Alfcia Gamble 37515, Agnes
White 34216 Marie Kennedy ITO, Cora Stanley 20.
Forester's pin-E. Moriarity 1,o6615, P. O'Brien
7ss NJ Ward 100, Morgan Mooney So, P. H. Cos
Boxing gloves-Thomas Reilly Q95 Hamilton)
1876. j. Neyins So, William Dunn rs, Frank Quinn 80,
James Kelly 25.
K of C-san Salvador 2, 76o, Santa Maria e,1on6,
Elm City 379. Loyal 3d. Pinta IS, Columbia 1s1
The following are the winners of prizes an
nounced officially Monday night:
wharf; Ladies Companion, %, = Hoyei Ed street.
Life of Christ 10O Rose Keenan,, 29s Prospect; par
lor stove, SO, Captain E. j. Morse, Foot Guard;
brella 2S John McWeeny, 1o1 Bristol street; ban |
cover, 81. Kate Mcmahon, IA COTE street; book |
inkstand. 70, Martin Reynolds, $50 Whalley avenue
box of cigars. 40, Willie Manning 234 Davenport
avenue; bracket, IS. Susie Donahue, 100 Gregory
street; rig zig; G: J. Deabe; ISL Ashmun street;
box of starch, 50, T. A Smith, 10 College streetto
let set, SO, Father Anthony, @ S: F. Winsted, Ct;
smoking set, 80, F. Marvin, 81 COTE street; kid
set. co, James J. eastman, AZ Webster street;
broom brush case. 81, Mrs Islay, Dixweil avenue;
sake With Z. rR e. Susie do eapal
Father Anthony, O. s, F., Winsted; marble top
@ fse Pnnn obl ISL pG 05angs
street; tidy, l, Annie Ashdown; wax clock 81,
Frank Edwards toilet set, 144 George H. Close, IS
street; chest of tea 49, Robert Morse 100 Bradley
street; backing cabinet, 50, Bernie Farrell, 7
Wooster street; gold watch, $780, Mike Reilly, Bran
ford; Fl, 2o6won the second weeks door prize-S2o
in gold
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27

MINNEAPOLIS, April ga Pierre, Dako-
ia, dispatch says that detachment from
Company E arrived at Pierre to-day en- route
to Fort Sully for rations. The soldiers re-
port Company evicting settlers from the
Big Bend and number have already moved.
The settlers are given three days notice to
go and if they are still the ground the
military takes charge. The soldiers will re-
main three weeks on the reservation and the
lands Indignation runs high and efforts are
being made to prevent cruel treatment of
settlers
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
NEW HAvEN's FUNDING BONDS.

The Waterbury Savings Rank Becomes
the Purchaser-It Bids 1.05-SeWers
Ordered Laid-Trees to be Planted ON
Arbor Day.
The board Of selectmen met last evening
and opened bids on the twenty year funding
bonds of the town of New Haven. The
Waterbury Savings bank was the highest
bidder and became the purchaser. They bid
105
A twenty-four inch sewer was ordered
built on Grand avenue from Center street to
Grand avenue bridge; and a branch sewer
on Center street from Church street.
The taxes for 1882 on St. James parish,
Westville, were voted abated.
On Friday-Arbor day-the selectmen will
have twelve trees planted on Reynolds street,
bordering Springside farm. Seven of the
trees to represent the members of the board,
two the clerks in the Office of the board and
three for the almshouse management.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
WHIPPED TO DEATH.
The Horrible Murder of q Two Year
Old Child.

Old Child.
CLEVELAND, April ga most brutal
murder, the particulars of which can hardly
be credited on account of the terrible cruelty
OF the deed, took place in Decatur alley near
the notorious Commercial street hill Monday.
Some time ago Mrs. Jennie Docile, colored
woman, took charge of two year old colored
child named Robert Brown Yesterday Mrs
Docile left the child in charge of two girls.
When she returned at noon the little boy
was very sick and at 2 p. m. he died. The
girls told her that the child had been very
naughty and they had whipped him ga
little" The fact of the child's death soon
spread through the neighborhoed and several
persons who called at the house and saw the
body said that the infant had been logged
to death. The body of the child was in
terrible condition. Great welts and cuts deep
into the skin were plainly visible and on
many places the skin and flesh had been torn
open and the blood had oozed from the
wounds and trickled down upon the bed
clothes. After questioning the woman the
officers decided to arrest all the inmates of
the house and Mrs. Docile, Carrie Smith and
Hattie Jewell were taken to the central
station. All the prisoners were locked up
on the charge of murder.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
Steadily IncreaRing.

Boston, April 26.-The Globe this morn
ing in its financial article says: American
Electric Manufacturing company's stock has
gained considerable strength during the past
week, with sales at 4S1s to so. Orders are
coming in freely from the country and the
stock is getting scarce. Those conversant
with the company's affairs predict gradual
advance in market price. The company pays
~ quarterly, which at so makes it IL per
cent. stock. The company seems to be
making steady and healthy progress, and it
is now simply question of confidence with
the investment public. If the dividends
the case, it is only question of a short time
when the stock will reach par. It certainly
looks as though the stock was dirt cheap at
present prices.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
A young CITIES Marrow Escape.

PHILADELPHIA, April 26.-An eighteen
year old girl was found insensible in the
street this morning. When restored to con-
seriousness at the police station she said she
was Annie Easton of Fifty eighth street and
Second avenue, New York, that she came
here two months ago looking for work and
met John Moore, whom she married on the
10th inst. Yesterday Moore took her to a
house, the location of which she cannot re-
call, and after drinking some beer with him
she became unconscious and knew nothing
more until she revived at the station. There
was note in the bosom of her dress Stain g
that she intended to commit suicide by poi
son. She says she did not write it and
thinks Moore tried to poison her and wrote
the note to avoid being suspected She
knows very little about Moore. The police
think they can find him. The girl is now at
a hospital and will recover
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-27
Jack CeIe,s Daughters in distress.

BROOKLYN, April 26.-Jaek Cole, the brave
boatswain of the Inflated Jeanette, who
died soon after returning from the terrible
Arctic expedition, left two young daughters,
Mamie and Louise, who have managed to
obtain meagre support by working at sew
ing in an underwear factory. The factory
shut down some time ago and the girls are
now destitute, unable to get work and threat
ened with being dispossesssd of their humble
lodgings at 1873 Baltic street.